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Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: More than 100 missing after school attack Nigeria Boko Haram: Some missing girls 'rescued' after school attack
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More than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls are missing after an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, Nigerian police say. Some of the schoolgirls missing after a militant attack on a boarding school in northern Nigeria have been rescued by the military, officials say.
Militants raided their school on Monday evening, but many of the students and staff had fled before they arrived. About 100 children were believed to be missing after pupils and teachers fled into bush outside the town of Dapchi during the attack.
It was initially thought that the girls had escaped, but two days later, their whereabouts are still not known. Parents told the BBC they had seen girls being taken away in trucks.
The attack comes four years after Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok.The attack comes four years after Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the town of Chibok.
The latest attack was in Dapchi, Yobe state, about 275 km (170 miles) north-west of Chibok. In a statement, the Yobe state government said an unspecified number of girls had been rescued from the "terrorists who abducted them" and were now with the army.
Locals living near the school told the BBC that about half the girls who had fled have been found after hiding in surrounding villages - some up to 30 km away. Reuters news agency quoted parents and a government official as saying that 76 girls had been rescued and at least 13 were still missing
"Eight hundred and fifteen students returned to the school and were visibly seen, out of 926 in the school. The rest are missing," the police minister of Yobe state, Abdulmaliki Sumonu, told reporters. Two girls had been found dead, Reuters said, without specifying how they had died.
But Mr Sumonu added that "no case of abduction has so far been established." Yobe state officials had previously said there was no information to suggest any of the girls had been kidnapped.
Officials are not calling this a kidnapping, and say many of the girls and teachers ran into the bush and may still be found. Dapchi is about 275km (170 miles) north-west of Chibok.
The father of one 16-year-old girl told the AFP news agency: " We still don't know how many of our daughters were recovered and how many are still missing. We have been hearing many numbers, between 67 and 94." The jihadists entered the town firing guns and letting off explosives, causing students and teachers to flee into the surrounding bush.
One parent told the BBC they had seen a truck full of students being taken away.
The security services are said to be combing the surrounding area to find the missing girls.
Some residents and civilian militia in Dapchi said they believed the jihadists had planned to kidnap schoolgirls in their town too, AFP reports.
The jihadists came into the town, firing guns and letting off explosives, causing students and teachers to flee into the surrounding bush.
Residents say that Nigeria's security forces - backed by military jets - later repelled the attack.Residents say that Nigeria's security forces - backed by military jets - later repelled the attack.
The school has been shut, and is being guarded by troops. Locals living near the school told the BBC that many of the girls who had fled had been found after hiding in surrounding villages - some up to 30km away.
Yobe's police minister said that 815 of the school's 926 students had later returned to the school.
The minister was speaking before news that more girls had been rescued by the military.
What has happened to the Chibok girls?What has happened to the Chibok girls?
Last September, a group of more than 100 of the Chibok girls were reunited with their families at a party in Abuja.Last September, a group of more than 100 of the Chibok girls were reunited with their families at a party in Abuja.
Most of the group were released in May as part of a controversial prisoner swap deal with the Nigerian government that saw five Boko Haram commanders released.Most of the group were released in May as part of a controversial prisoner swap deal with the Nigerian government that saw five Boko Haram commanders released.
But more than 100 schoolgirls are still being held by Boko Haram, and their whereabouts are unknown.But more than 100 schoolgirls are still being held by Boko Haram, and their whereabouts are unknown.
Boko Haram militants have been fighting a long insurgency in their quest for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The conflict is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people.Boko Haram militants have been fighting a long insurgency in their quest for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The conflict is estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people.
The Chibok girls represent a fraction of the women captured by the militant group, which has kidnapped thousands during its eight-year insurgency in northern Nigeria.The Chibok girls represent a fraction of the women captured by the militant group, which has kidnapped thousands during its eight-year insurgency in northern Nigeria.